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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-02-09
NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States.

OFFICER ADAMS, of the New York police
while in pursuit OF prisoner who hao
escaped from his clutches, fired twice at the
fugitive; the second shot struck and killed 6
young man named Canale
THIRTY-N1NE West Point military cadets
were found deficient at the annual examiua
tion and dismissed.
SMALLPOX cases are becoming unusually
frequent in New York City.
MICHAEL DAvITT, the Irish Home Rule
agitator, has sailed for England after hold
ing a large and enthusiastic farewell recep-
tion in New York.
FLOODS resulting from sudden thaws and
overaowing streams have caused considera..
BILE damage in portions of New York and
Pennsylvania
GENERAL CHARLES P. STONE, known from
his military service in Egypta Stone Pasha,
died few days since in New York. he was
born in Massachusetts, entered the army in
1915 and served through the Mexican and
Civil wars subsequently entering the
Khedive's army in Egypt and attaining high
rank.
-FOUR young children Of H. L. Ross were
burr d to death at Fern City, Penn, during
the absence of their parents.
THE pilot boat Francis Perkins was lost
in gale off Barnegat, n. j., and two OF her
crew were drowned.
MRS. L. E. SoUTHwICK, prominent nlu
sic dealer, and O boy named Guy Ferris
were thrown from q wagon by q runaway
horse at Cory, Penn, and both fatally in
jured.
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FROM FOREIGN LANDS.
Some Matters of Importance in
Other Countries.
Queen Victoria's Speech at the Open.
ing of Parliament

The British Parliament is again in session.
The scenes were duller than those which usu-
ally attend this event. Queen Fictoria's
terest. She tells "My Lords and Gentle
men, that her relations with foreign
powers are friendly, but no alluson
is made to the question Of the Canadian
fisheries She deplores tie events which COM
PEELED Prince Alexander to retire from the
Bulgarian throne, but states she will not in
terfere with regard to his successor until her
assent is required by the Berlin Treaty.
Egyptian, ami Burmese affairs. though
not highly satisfactory at present,
gentlemen of the House of Commons are
reminded that they hold the purse strings.
With regard to Ireland the Queen says: 1.-The
condition of Ireland still requires your anX-
ious attention. Grave crimes in that country
have happily been rarer in the last
few mouths than during the similar
period of the preceding year, but the
Of the land. which in the early autumn ex.
hibite1 signs of improvement, havo since
been seriously disturbed in some districts by
organized attempts to incite the latter Glass
to combine against the fuliilment OF their le-
cal obligations. The efforts of the
government to cope with this evil
have been seriously impeded by the dill
cultieS incident to the method at present
prescribed 10y statute for dealing with such
offences. Your early attention will be
called to proposals for the reform of
legal procedure, which seems neces ary
to secure prompt and efficient admin
istration of the criminal law. Since !
last adlres s,ed you the Commissioners directed
to in1uiro into certain subjects OF great I'M
portance to the material welfare OF Ireland
have been actively prose :utiny their labors.
The report of the commission on the opera
ton OF the recent acts dealing with the
tenure and purchase of land will shortly be
laid before you. and will doubtless receive
from you the early and careful at
tcntlon whiclA the serious Importance
of the subject demands. Bills for
meut in England and Scotland will he laid
before you. Should the circumstances rem
der it possible they Will be followed by
measure dealing with the same subject in
Ireland A bill for improving and cheapen-
ing the process of private bill legislation for
England, Scotland and Ireland will be sub
mltteu.n
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND Is assessed for
$,75O in the District Of Columbia
W. w. CoRcoRAN, the Washington phil
anthropist, pays takes on 81, loo,ooo.
Ex-Governor WILLIAM SMITH, OF |lr-
ginia Extra Billy, is ninety years OLD.
Hon. P. C. LoUNsBURY, Governor OF Con-
pecticut, owns a-large hotel in Macon, Ga.
Mr. SrocKBR1peE, the new Senator from
Michipan. is one of the lumber barons Ok
that State.
A FUND is being raised in Maine Tor tfe
relief of Solon Chase, once a promlnent
Greenbacker.
THE wife of Senator Sabin, Of Minnesota;
having no children Of her own, has adopeeo
family of nine.
JAMES c. FLOOD, the California million
aire, recently bought ten paintings IN Ne"
York foEs$65, ,0oo.
JORDAN B. NOBLE, who was drummer
how at the battle of New Orleans, IS still IlF-
ipe in Philadelphia at the age OF elgnty-
teven.
HON HANNIBAL HAML1N had brother
named Julius Caesar Cincinnatus, and MS
four sisters bore the names of Europe, Asia,
Australia, and America.
THE Emperor and Empress OF Austria
will meet the King and queen OF Italy at
Venice IN MARCH, Oh luS oSSa'toa WV
uuveiling of a monument to Victor Eman-
uel
MICHAEL DAvITT, the Irish Home Rule agI-
tator, now in this country, ha' Travelled over
10, QUO miles, delivered forty-eight speeches
and been married all in period OF less than
ten weeks.
MRS W. X. VANDERBILT, Of New York,
has a pearl ne :kla e which consists OF $40
Oriental pearls set in a golden chain that
once belonged to the Empress Eugene IL
cost Sl3O,000.
E1-GovERNoR CURTIN, Of Pennsylvania,
recently had az operation performed Oh his
right eve that had been sightless for more
than twenty years, and his sight has been
completely restored.
Miss BESSIE WHITE, who, by the decision
of Kentucky court, is allowed to dispense
| medicine in that State, is sister OF ex-Con-
gresham White, of Kentucky, and is pro-
found mathematician.
Miss CLARA BARTON, President OF the
American National Red Cross Association,
has gone to Texas to investigate the con-
dition and needs of the sufferers from the
drought Of last summer and the prece ling
year.
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Attracted by the profits that have been
derived from the rearing of ostriches and
the sale of their feathers, enterprising
persons have at various times exported
these birds from the Cape of Good Hope
to such divergent quarters as India,
South Australia, the River Plate and
New Zealand: and in all these it is said
the birds are thriving, notably so in she
last named colony, from which a first
consignment of feathers was recently
taken to England. The Cape will,
therefore, no longer be able to boast OF
monopolizing this industry.
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There is a new fad among the swells
of New York city, whose love for the
picturesque is not satisfied with the
sombre raiment of the conventional dress
suit. These scintillating Individuals
now appear with two waistcoats when
arrayed for the evening. The out waist
coat is of white pique or silk, and the
under vestmcnt is of gorgeous blue or
crimson silk, the edge of which just
protrudes beyond the lapel of the over
waistcoat. Any desire for conspicuous
ness is thus gratifed, as the effect is
suggestive of the "orders" and insignia
of potenta:es and foreign diplomats.
The haberdashers are delighted at the
prospect of the innovation.
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GIANT POWDERS WORK.

One Man Killed and Fifteen Cars
Wrecked by an Explosion.
About 2OO cases Of giant powder exploded
while in transit over the Missouri Pacific
Railroad q half mile west of Fort Scout,
KAN, at o'clock the other morning. The
train consisted of twenty-three freight cars
and fifteen of them were completely de-
molished, and the magazine car was blown to
atoms Scott Hooker, brakeman, was IN
stantly killed.
A great hole was blown in the Iroadbed anu
the rails and ties ground to powder for sew
eral rods distant. The shock from tue OK,
nlosion was simply terrific Ten thousand
dollars worth of fine plate glass and win
dow glass was broken in the buildings
throughout the central and western part OF
Fort Scott. Many thought it an earthquake
and left their beds and ran from their houses
panic stricken. The explosion was felt
twenty-five mules away.
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LATER NEWS.

JAKE VAN WoERT, farmer living nea
Stokesdale Junction, Penn, was shot deaf
by his child-wife, scarcely fifteen years old
He had been beating his wife, and threatenet
her life with knife, when she ended BIZ
existence with two revolver shots.
SECRETARY MANNING has appointed Jesse
B. Abrahams, of Virginia, to be Deputy
Comptroller of the Currency.
A COMMITTEE representing the Knights OF
Liberty addressed letter to President Cleve'
land requesting him to veto the Interstate
Commerce bill.
Mr.. GoscHEN, appointed to succeed Lord
Randolph Churchill as British Chancellor Of
the Exchequer has been defeated by eleven
votes in an election for Parliament at Liver.
pool.
AN order has been issued forbidding the
expectation of horses across the German
frontier.
The origin of q recent fire at Yverdon
Switzerland, has been traced to Anarchists
who set fire to many buildings with the OBJ
ject of making work for unemployed per
sons.
ANDREW CRAIG, a bachelor, aged eighty
five, and Mrs Mary Martin. widow, aged
eighty-thrce, were married near Deerfield,
Penn, few nights ago. They are both
rich.
ALL the longShoremen in New York city
struck on Thursday for the purpose OF
forcing the coal companies and Old
Dominion Stermsphip Company to
make a settlement with their strIk-
inr employes. About thirty thousand
men. comprising longShoremen, boatmen'
coal handlers and kindred workmen, went
out and many vessels had great dillicnlty III
getting freight and coal aboard.
GOVERNOR MCESERY, of Louisiana, has
lust pardoned twelve convicts in one bath.
AHEAvy flood at Port Deposit. Md, owing
to an ice gorge in the Sus Ilchanna, mai, II
necessary to .,chor many of the houses by
runn;ny CABLE s to trees OH the high land al
jacent
TIE second official reception given by the
President and Mrs. Cleveland took place th'
other night 1t was in honor of Congress
and the White House was filled with mem
bcrs and Others
DIR. ROBERTSON, of Brighton, England,
new member of the British ParllamenC, Il
blind.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-02-09
FOUR BOILERS EXPLODE
Large Iron Mills Wrecked and Two
Men Killed.

A battery Of four steel boilers in Spang,
Chalfant & Co.'S steel and iron works at
Etnaborough, Penn, exploded with ter
rife force at five o'clock Monday morn
ing. completely wrecking the bar mill
Department, killing one man instantly, and
seriou ,ly injuring a number OF others. Inc
conclusion was so great that it shook tne
houses for miles around, shatterlng windows
in the vicinity of the mill, and awakening
the residents Of the borough, who rushed IN
terror from their houses. scantily clad. IL
was ascertained that four boilers OF q battery
of six had burst, spreading destruction IN
their path. George Patterson, hremaD, was
instantly killed, and William Corvllle, an
employe. was so BADLY injured that he died
soon afterward. Twelve more persons were
The ruin wrought in the mill by the explo,,
sion was complete. The building. was LAID
low. and the machinery broken and scattered
in ali dire .tions. The force Of the explo-
sion must have been terrific, as large
nieces of boiler iron were found hundreds
Of wards from the scene Of disaster. One
piece, weighing at least one thousand po9ndSs;; s;
cut its way through the entire mill, and 1el
IN the public road fully five hundred yards,
distant. The damage to the mill Will e1ceed
$4,000.
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Emin Pacha Reported Safe.

The Egyptian Government has received a
report that Emin Pacha, who has been be.
seiged by rebels for some time, isalready on
his way to the eastern coast of Africa. hav-
ing. after desperate fighting, cut hi:
way through the Uganda Territory.
Henry NJ. Stanley. who recently left
America in great hurry to head an eS-
petition for Emn's release, has started for
Zanzibar. He considers that the money
placed at his disposal is insufficient, but he
trusts that, if the news OF their escape be
true, he will be able to complete tho
relief of Emn and his party. He de-
clares that he has no intention OF
allowing himself to be sacrificed
by the Egyptian Government, and that il
difficulties are placed in his way he will
abandon the present enterprise and undertake
an expedition on his own account, taking his
own route.
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Mrs. Julia D. Grant recently received
from the Treasury Department at Wash
ington $685.. so for back pay due her hus-
band as First Lieutenant and Quarter
master in the Fourth Regiment Of In
fantry during the Mexican war, and also
for the amount due for arrears from July
to July %, 1885, as a retired General
of the United States army. Mrs. Grant
has forwarded the two checks to the
Grant Monument Association in New
York to aid the funds of that body.
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Surgeon Charles A. Siegfried, of the
United States navy, has returned from
Paris, where he looked into the PasteuI
system of fighting hydrophobia, with O
view to its introduction into govern
ment hospital in this country. He says
that medical opinions in France differ as
to the efficacy of the inoculations, but
that the record of cases seems to estab.
lish the value of Pasteur's work.
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DR.. T. D. Crothcrs is working hard to
prove that inebricty is contagious under
certain circumstances. He has just
printed a paper entitled: Scr ain
Hereditary and Psychical Phenomena in
Inebriety," to illustrate his doctrine that
intoxication may be impaired by conta-
gion when hereditary defects predispose
the system to such influences. That is
to say, perfectly sober man, brought
in contact with drunken men, may be-
come drunk himself to all practical in
tents, or an equally sober person whose
parents, one or both, are hard drinkers,
may, when exposed to some mental
shock, apparently become fully intoxi-
Gated
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Some scoundrel played fiendish
joke upon little girl named Hettie
Johnson, at Lancaster, Ohio. He met
her in front of the residence of John G..
Hite. which is inclosed with an iron
fence, and told her to touch her tongue
to the frosted post. This she innocently
did, and of course it stu k there, when
the dastardly wretch who induced her
to do the thing ran up the street and
disappeared down an alley. The little
girl, only five years old, was held tight,
with her head to the post, but gentle
man, happening along, discovered her
misfortune, and procuring pitcher OF
water released her, not, however, with
out leaving strip of her tongue adher-
ing to the cold iron.
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A chimney on fire called out some of
the Baltimore firemcn the other day.
When they reached the house one of
them drew big pistol and, standing be-
low, fred five shots up the chimney.
Instantly the SCOT and fire dropped
down, and the fire was extinguished.
The conclusion loosened the accumula-
ted SCOT. The police and fremen of
that city say it is an old practice with
them and has never failed.
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War Prospects in Europe.

A communication from Berlin which is
asserted to be from an authentic source
states that war between Germany and France
is regarded as more probable at Berlin than
is to he inferred from the information which
is permitted TO he accessible to the public.
lit is erroneous" says the letter, ''to sup
pose that the semi-oflicial press of Germany
nublisl the details of French armamcrtS
merely for the purpose of influencing the
people in the coming elections. We hap
nen to know that Prince Bismarck,
recently, when he had that view
of the case presented to him, quoted, in re-
ply, from Faust, the words: "Thou resem-
blest the spirit whom thou comprehendest;
not me.n The Prince added that the state
ment made in behalf of the German Govern
ment respecting French armamentS were
not put forth as any rart OF elec.
ton manpuvring. but as warning, and he
said the cold douche had been turned on with
less force this time in order not to provoke
the people too much, but it would be turned
on with greater strength if that was found
to be necessary.
eve once averted war;" continued the
Chancellor, "by appealing against it at the
proper moment" He alluded to the po-
sition of affairs in 1854, when the German
semi-ol1icial press called attention to tho
fact that Russian cavalry were Icing massed
on the German frontier. Then it was
understood that an alliance existed between
Russia and France, and it was shown that
warlike action on the part of Rus Sia was pos.
itively imminent. The present condition of
affairs is not exactly analogous to that
which then existed, no Franco-RuSsian alli-
ance being now feared, but there is ample
authentic evidence that General Boulanger,
the French Minister of War, is persuaded
that France will be prepared and able by lSSS
at thelatest to enter unaided into great and
decisive struggle, if quiet were maintained in
the East until that time If Russia, however,
should speedily take action, orif an outbreak
should occur in the Balkans, there was evil
dence that General Boulahger contemplated,
in that event. campaign against Germany
within few months Germany, therefore.
was compelled to consider the expediency of
awaiting inactively for the French attack.
The communication above alluded to con-
cludes with these words: president Grevy
and Prime Minister Goblet both uusuccess-
fully have tried to remove Gen. Boulanger
from control of the military affairs Of
France"
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CANADA AND IRELAND.
Gladstone and Chamberlain on Their
Likeness and Difference.

Gladstone and Chamberlain on Their
Likeness and Difference.
Mr.. Chamberlain writes To the London
Times at considerable length to show the
practica bility of the adaptation OF the Cana
dian Constitution to Ireland to meet the
fundamental conditions of Lori Hartington's
plan for the governmental Of Ireland. In con-
Guiding Mr.. Chamberlain says he never pre-.
tended that the Canadian Constitution could
be bodily transferred so as to settle the rela-
tions OF Ireland and Great Britan n. The ex-
act nature of the adaptation which would be
suitable for the wants of Ireland is one OF the
questions on which he hopes that further dis
cussion will throw light.
Mr. Gladstone, writing to Glasgow paper,
says there are many circunstantial differ
ences between the cases OF Canada and Ire
land, but within anil under them there is q
strong analogy. In the main they have the
same friends and foes. Toryism has not sup
ported freedom in Canada and resists it in
ireland.
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The London papers, commenting on
the wheat situation, says that America
has the reins entirely in her own hands.
Europe wants something like 1000, 900
bushels per week from the Atlantic
ports during the next five or six months.
The stock of English wheat is reduced to
10000, 900 bushels, against 27, 900, 900 at
the same time last year.
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AS nearly every one in Europe is now
talking about war, let US see how many
men each nation can bring into the fray
Russia, 100000; France, 2,435, 600;
Germany, 2, 500, 900; Austria, ITO, 900;
Italy, 100000 Turkey, 800, 900, max
ing a total of over $4,000, 900 men. If
all these arms were employ ed in agcul-
ture and commerce!
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There is no dcarth of physicians in
this country. A statistician declares
that while the annual increase of the
population is less than two per cent, the
annual increase of physicians is more
than five and one-half per cent. 1t is
said that there are nearly two thousand
more physicians in the State of Illinois
than are necessary. No wonder many of
them are drifting into other callings.
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A Life of Trials.

"Come in, my poor man." said a be-
nevolent lady to ragged tramp, "and I
will get you something to cat"
"Thanky, mum; don't care if do"
~ suppose" continued the lady, set
ting square meal before him, your
life has been full of trials!"
"Yis, mum; an the wust of it wuZ I
allus got convicted. .'-JudSc.
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Montana cattlcmen are greatly alarmed
for the future, owing to the overstocking
of the ranges. Last year witnessed
heavy influx of cattle brought there to
winter. Large herds were brought over
the parched trail from the Rio Grande,
and in their famishcd condition placed
on ranges already SO fully stocked that
only phenomenally mild winter could
prevent heavy losses. To make matters
worse the calf crop was uuusally large.
Up to Christmas the weather was favor
able and all was we'll, but since then,
the temperature ranging as low as forty
below and binding storms, before which
cattle drift in spite of the cowboys ef-
forts, reduce the cattle in flesh and so
weaken them an to make heavy losses
inevitable if the cold weather continues.
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An Ingenious Claimant.

The Pension Office receives queer applica-
tlons for pensions sometimes A letter;
has been received from woman in Little
Rock. Ark. asking a pension on the.g ground OF
nervous debility. She says during the war
wounded Federal soldier was carried into
her mothers house, where his leg was ampu-
tated. The sight threw her into convulsions,
from which she has never recovered. She
asks the Commissioner to grant her pen
sion of $50 month as compensation.
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Postal Telegraphs.

The Senate Committee on Postoffices and
Postroads has authorized Senator Wilson, OF
Iowa. to report an original postal tele-
graph bill as q substitute for that in
trcduced by Senator Edmunds. The new bill
is made up of the first eleven sections of that
framed by the same committee in the last
Congress and reported by Senator Hill,
of Colorado. These sections provide for
the establishment by the Postmaster-Gen-
eral of a postal telegraph system by con-
tracing for the performance Of the service
with existing telegraph companies The
government is required to furnish the offices
and make provision for selling stamps to
cover the charges. o..
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There are now 16, 900 colored teachers
in the United States, 1000, 900 pupils in
the Southern States alone; Is, 900 il the
male and female high-schools, and 81
100000 worshippers in churches. There
are sixty normal schools, fifty colleges
and universities, and twenty-five theo-
logical seminaries.